Hurricane Melissa is expected to rapidly intensify into a major hurricane on Sunday. According to the National Hurricane Center in Miami, the hurricane is likely to bring life-threatening and catastrophic flash flooding and landslides to parts of Jamaica and southern Hispaniola, which is made up of Haiti and the Dominican Republic.

The category two hurricane was moving at three miles per hour Saturday evening with increased top sustained winds of 100 miles per hour. The storm's slow movement is expected to bring a deluge of rain to parts of the Caribbean and prolong its dangerous impacts over a period of several days.

A hurricane watch is issued for Haiti from its border with the Dominican Republic to Port au-Prince. Melissa was about 250 miles southwest of the Haitian capital late Satur

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